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Brown v Board of Education
Who was Involved: Oliver Brown - father of Linda Brown - NAACP - Lawyer Where did this take place: Kansas - also South Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, District of Columbia What happened: Overturn Plessy vs Ferguson 9-0 -
Murder of Emmitt Till
Who was involved: Carolyn Bryant - 21 year old, Roy Bryant - husband, J.W Millan- brother in law Where did this take place: Money, Mississippi What happened: Whistled at a white women, gets killed after, only 14 years old -
Rosa Arks and the Bus Boycott
Who was involved: Rosa Parks Where did this take place: Montgomery, Alabama What happened: Refused to move from her seat on the bus -
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Where: Atlanta, Georgia
The SCLC was an organization linked to the black churches: 60 black ministers were pivotal in organizing civil right activism. Martin Luther King Jr was elected President. They focused its non violent strategy on citizenship, schools and efforts to desegregate individual cities. It played key roles in the March on Washington in 1963 and the Selma Voting Rights Campaign and March to Montgomery
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Little Rock 9
Who was involved: NAACP - 9 black students Where did this take place: Little Rock, Arkansas What happened: 9 black students went to white only school, they were harassed, bullied, and attacked. Only few were able to graduate.